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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? (www.theverge.com)

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[–] evol@lemmy.today 8 points 1 week ago

hopefully more leftists/progressives will wake up about how trusting these companies with "censorship" and having closed source proprietary tech/platforms so entangled in our lives is a bad thing. Most in my experience just complain about how we need to tax them without really thinking about how we can disentangle them from our lives. The past 20 years have been this weird bubble where the largest creators of capital (silicon valley) were not explicitly sided with the auth right wing. People have gotten too use to this especially with personal data and just expecting the state to save them.

I like to think this will cause open source solutions and federated ecosystems to become more popular. Maybe i'm a doomer but we will just get more tiktoks about trump is bad and "late stage capitalism". People I think just will never sacrifice convenience in life, its why authoritarianism seems to always win.

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 week ago

Why would respecting the guidelines upset "the right"? Are they all pedophiles?

Apple's keyboard doesn't even have the word pedophile. Kind of ironic isn't it?

[–] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Appeasing fascist is always, always going to make them bolder.

But apparently fighting back "is exactly what he wants" so yea, good luck with doing more of ~~nothing~~ "exactly what he wants" .

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Sadly I'm hoping they do it so Musk will poor money into allowing side loaded apps in Android and iOS permanently

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But Xitter disabled image gen now.

Sure, yes, with any niche app, they would've pulled it from the store and never allowed it again.

[+] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

No, I don't think that's what's happening here. I think people are theorizing that X is very likely to respond to pressure from Google and Apple threatening to deplatform them, and loudly complaining about them not applying their own rules equally is a great way to remind their internal lawyers to put pressure on them (insulting the CEOs is just a nice bonus).

Frankly, if the fallot here is a relaxed adult policy, that's still a win. LGBTQIA advocacy groups tend to get lumped in as 'adult', which is a problem for trans-affirming suicide prevention hotlines trying to save lives.

As for your slippery slope question, that Pandora's box is already open. Just half a year ago Mastercard and VISA put the strongarm on Valve and itch.io to let the payment processors ban any game they choose under the guise of pornography censorship. Pressuring a platform to censure an app 'for the sake of the children' just isn't the virgin ground you seem to think it is.

[–] JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

There is another battle: There is a fight to open up app installation on phones. The EU recently forced Apple to allow other app stores on iOS and Apple is fighting this as hard as you would expect. Apple & Google are taking 30% of each sale in their stores and are making bank. One of the arguments they are pushing is "safety". Only apps on their vetted app stores are safe, every other store is unsafe and so on. If they allow a child porn app in their store, all of their arguments in this debate are invalid. And that is also an important fact for that debate.

[–] OldGrayDog@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago

If you want to get it banned, make some deepfake porn of them and their family members and watch how fast it disappears.

[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sometimes I have the impression X is doing everything to be removed to the App Store so Musk can sue and get rid of the guidelines. And as we can see here we can do even CSAM on his social network and no one do anything, this should be a matter of law, not a private company like Google or Apple.

[–] ZestyAdmin@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

X is a propaganda tool. If they remove that then they also risk opposing the larger objectives of the USA.

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